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Dearest Readers….

It has been my pleasure engaging with many of you that I have authentically connected with. I am currently choosing to redirect all of my blogs to my website and bring completion to this WordPress account. It was born from the question I asked for a year and there has been so much change, growth and transformation that I’d like to continue with dialogue, just on my website now. I am going to give this 1 weeks (July 22) for people to please move over to my new blog home. I have hundreds of readers on this WordPress page that I can not communicate any other way than through here. It is my hope and desire that you follow me. Please join me Shakti’s Blog

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xoxo, Shakti

“If your head can hold an image of it, then your hands can hold the reality of it. If you can visualize it, then you can create it into form.”

~Bob Proctor~

“Expect a Miracle”

Dreaming your dreams, Becoming your Dreams, Actualizing your Dreams and Living your Dreams is all a process. As Doreen Virtue stated at the writer’s conference in Maui, I attended this month “It takes 10 years to become an overnight success.” That being said, you don’t want to back away from living your dreams, you just want to recognize that actualizing and manifesting your dreams take a point of view that require sustainability. And that work comes with falling in love with your everyday life. Falling in love with your work, falling in love with your passion and being who you truly BE. What if stepping into who you truly BE is easier than you thought? What if being YOU requires less work rather than more?

Does this sound to good to be true? Does this sound like something that is working for you or against you? What action steps are you afraid to take? What action steps are you unwilling to take to make your dreams a reality? Do you have the drive? Or are you being driven?

Do you have the passion, as well as the compassion, for yourself and others as you find yourself walking on a different side of the street then everyone else? What if standing out IS your contribution to the world?

AND What if these 5 Keys could unlock your manifesting power? Are you willing to break it down and see the path of transformation? Are you willing to do what it takes to become your dreams? Or remain the dreamer being dreamed? If you answered YES then grab your keys and let’s go for a drive down Success Lane.

It’s time to take the ACTION in ACT-ualization.

Key 1 Understanding the difference between Manifesting and Actualization.

Key 2 Knowing when to be silent.

Key 3 Co-creating with the universe.

Key 4 Owning your gifts.

Key 5 Being open and letting go of what you think you know.

Opening the doors to the symphony of possibilities.

Key 1, Is there a difference between Manifesting and Actualization? Yes there is. Manifesting is working with bringing “thought” and “energy” together and working with the “inner world” of manifesting. Actualization is the action generated from an idea. Without the action, you will only have ideas without any completion. . Have you ever experienced that before? I’m sure you have, we all let ideas wash away due to the lack of follow through. As Bob Proctor says, “If your head can hold an image of it, then your hands can hold the reality of it. If you can visualize it, then you can create it into form.”

Key 2, As Wayne Dyer so eloquently put it decades ago in his book REAL MAGIC, “The Secrets sits in the center that knows.” What is this secret? This secret is the heart-mind. The heart- mind knows everything and is removed from the mind-chatter. Without the silence, music would never be created. Without the silence, inspired action would never be generated. Silence IS the “magic” for this key. Without this magic, you have nothing to generate and create. Without this moment of inspiration, your ego thinks it knows everything and creates nothing.

Key 3, Co-creating with the universe. We are in partnership with the universe. A dance of the heart, where one foot is dancing in the Divine and the other foot is dancing here on earth. I like to see manifesting as an ethereal aspect of weaving the energies of thought and form into union. Where as, Intention is the seed planted, where then the energy has to water it and give it life to actualize into a fruit. Co-creating is a dance between these two places. The intention is a powerful driver. Manifesting is a quality of the universe, dancing the pieces together, as the universe orchestrates everything to be perfectly aligned, creating the symphony of possibilities.

What if it doesn’t feel aligned? What if there’s dead end after dead end? Or worse, what if there’s failure and only fear showing up for you? When this happens, the mind-chatter has disconnected with the heart-mind. The heart mind IS the driver, not the mind chatter. The head mind only knows past and future stories. The heart-mind KNOWS awareness and is present to what is in each moment. If you are confused about the heart-mind and what it is, then it’s time to take a look at what IS working to realign with those forces. What’s right about this situation you are not seeing? What’s right about YOU that you are not getting? When you feel trapped in the wrongness of who you are, then your tendency will be to remain looking for the evidence to prove you right.

Key 4, Owning your Gifts. That’s right, without YOU taking the drivers seat and becoming your own expert on what you do and declare as your “gifts”, you will remain stuck in the back seat of your life. Worse yet, everyone else will be driving you around and you will feel like your life is passing you by. What if you owned your calling? What if your path to success starts with you stating the obvious? And what is the obvious? The obvious is knowing what your calling is in this moment. Not 10 years ago. Not last year, but today. What is your heart-mind whispering to you today? Has it been on a broken record? Or is it new? Is it clear? Is it muddled? What are you here for? And when do you think you will be ready to take ACTION?

Key 5, Being open and letting go of what you think you know. In other words, “Expect it when you least expect it.” Or another way of putting it is, “If you think you know, Let it go.” Life usually ends up not looking the way you have painted it in your mind. Day dreaming is wonderful and necessary, however when it comes to making your footprints in the actual pavement of “REALITY” most people will say it was a different experience getting there. The how we get somewhere is going to be completely on how attached you are to the outcome. The more you let the outcome create itself from a universal knowing, the more doors of possibilities will open for you. What if the possibilities of actualizing your dreams really could come true? What if you could do it with total ease? What if the fruits of your calling are sweet, delicious and abundant? Are you willing to choose this?

So what makes stepping into ACT-ion bring about actualization? There’s momentum in action. This energy talked about above is a perpetual flow of transmitted energy and is continuously working for you, no matter what. There’s power in co-creating with the universe. EVEN if it FEELS like the wrong action. It’s still action.

Are you willing to choose the ACTION necessary to ripen the fruits of your dreams? How badly do you wish for your dreams to come true? How much are you living in the wrong dream and wish to change this? And what is stopping you?

What if you standing in your greatness was an invitation for the rest of the world to join you? What if that invitation was the only missing ingredient to actualizing your dreams? Are you willing to choose your greatness? Or are you comfortable staying with your wrongness? Or worse yet, your smallness? What would happen if you stepped into your dreams and actualize them? Are you ready to be YOU in the world of possibilities and live your dreams? If you answered YES, I believe you. Welcome home!

Isn’t it amazing when all the signs of life line up just right. Your love emanates and you just are. Trying to get to it outside of yourself makes us crazy. Love is something that you have to embody in order to be it. It’s not something that you can find outside of yourself.

My recent trip to Maui in Hawaii was just that. I was aligned to my core essence. I was what I believe to be an embodiment of divine love. I felt like a living prayer wheel. I have never had an experience that transported me out of my “now” self and plunked me into a new “now” self instantaneously. One that had a vibration turned up so high, that I literally couldn’t be anything else other then love itself.

What’s amazing is what really happened. The veils of perception had an opportunity to be cleaned. I am still who I am. It’s just the belief of who I was has been cleared. The concept of understanding that when you are in your power, you are “Love in Action” and when you give your power away, you are a “Phantom in Action”. What is a phantom? A phantom is the illusion of being someone. Be it your beliefs or the illusion of being someone else maybe or not even being present. Our egos are definitely living phantoms.

Make a choice today to embody love and be love in action. That is true power.

“Life does not play tricks on you. Your mind does.”

Iyanla Vanzant

Only when we know better, do we do better. Does emotional freedom exist? Do you believe that your mind is separate from who you really are? Or do you believe that you are your mind? These are pivotal life changing questions to be asking yourself. If life follows you and your words (and even your thoughts), then perhaps being in the driver’s seat matters.

Where do we begin? Someday’s sitting with your thoughts and your mind becomes toxic in and of itself. We rely on our mind. We believe our thoughts and we often get carried away far too much on a daily basis. How is it then that we unhook our thoughts? Here are a 10 techniques that will help.

1) Investigate…take a look at your thought. Is it true? Is it really really true? How do you know it’s true? Where in your life can you say it’s true and not true. Look, really look to see how it’s not true. Even if it’s one example, because if there’s one, there will be more to follow.

2) Look at the belief. Ask yourself, “Who told me this about myself?” Was it a parent, a teacher, a sibling, society, or yourself? When you see who put that belief in you perhaps it isn’t yours. Let it go.

3) Pema Chodron once said, “Don’t believe everything you think.” Give it a go and see what happens next.

4) Life is our friend. Choose to see it that way. Make the intention that the universe if for you, not against you. And when that happens, you can say yes more. Words/thoughts are powerful and if you choose the negative ones, you get to witness them all day long. What is the positive intention in your suffering? What is the positive intention in your negative thoughts. Ask them and they will answer you.

5) Love what arises. Make friends with all your thoughts. Embrace them with 100% enthusiasm, no matter how sarcastic or sadistic they are. Commit 100% for rejoicing in who that voice is and see what happens next. When you offer love, the outcome has only one way to go.

6) Our external world appears in form. Forms appear as objects that we own or don’t own. We can take them or leave them, but we identify with them outside of ourselves as something that we acquire. Our thoughts are forms as well, but we don’t realize it. We can choose to own them or not. We can choose to leave them behind or not. When we see that our emotional life is no different from the physical life, freedom awaits. Learn to surrender your thoughts. Ego creates your suffering but your spiritual self knows really who you are. Listen to that voice instead.

7) Learn techniques to assist in reprogramming your mind.

Meditation for some, is really helpful in this. There are a variety of different ways of learning. Just start.

EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) is a tapping of meridian points that liberates our well-being in profound ways and works really well.

EMDR is another kind of re patterning of the brain (neural pathways). If you have built-in wiring from childhood traumas, this is a technique that will create a new matrix of thought forms and give emotional freedom.

8) Drop into prayer. Simple prayers are very affective. Here are a few to try out.

Help me loving universe. Help me to surrender my thoughts that I feel out of control with.

Please heal my perspective of ______. Thank you.

Help me release my sadness or grief or fears today so I may live in divine love and divine grace.

How may I be of service today. Help me help others.

9) Fear knocked at the door, Faith Answered, no one was there. Build up your faith muscles. Start small and go from there. Take windows of your day to practice this. Each mini success you have, it will build on the bigger picture of your life.

10) Begin to allow yourself to have new thoughts. Create an allowing journal. Allow yourself to love. Allow yourself to be gentle and soft with yourself. Allow yourself to ask for help. Allow yourself to allow. Spend 10 minutes in your journal writing all the things you will allow in your life today.

MAKE a Choice today. Do you want to join the “Chain of well- being” or do you want to remain in the “Chain of pain”?

You may think you are the only one suffering when you choose to live in the chain of pain, but it isn’t true. The interdependence follows you. All those around you can be sucked into your world or you can uplift them around you and “entrain” them into your “Chain of well-being” and see how humanity shifts as you make your personal choices. I didn’t say it would be easy, but then again that is another choice, isn’t it?

Whatever comes after the words “I AM”…..follows you. Not only does it follow you but it expands and grows. How do you choose to expand and grow today?

We are all being asked to Awaken to our Heart’s Essence.

Are you listening?

Are you paying attention?

Are you fighting it or opening to the mystery of it?

Do you see life in black and white? Are you living in the shadow of perfectionism still?

Awakening to your Heart’s Essence means are you waking up to your purpose? Are you choosing to be for love or against love? Are you for giving love? Or against giving love? Forgiving yourself? Forgiving others?

I can not answer any of these for you. Only you can. What matters most to you? Being right? Being loving? Being present and showing up? Listening to your calling.

The time has come. The time is right now. Do not let life hold you back.

What choices are you making today? What is your heart saying? And are you listening?

And the time has finally come.

I’d like to welcome you to Miracles and More. I bring my heart, my joy and my gifts. Please join me!

Miracles and More is a place where becoming yourself is not only honored but it is celebrated. A place for creating daily practices moving deeper into Self-love. A place where someone who loves themselves wholeheartedly knows how to leaninto joy and feel it all.

This year has been a miracle unto its self. I am fascinated that asking one question for a year would produce such powerful results. I feel like I have been waiting 20 years for this to happen and in asking “What would someone who loves themselves do?” accelerated my life in helping me gain the growth and results to become who I always believed I was meant to be. I am in awe of it actually. Humbled by the beauty and the whispers that come to me regularly.

I will be moving this blog over to the new website over the next few months. I am still working out the details on what moving it all means. I still have several weeks to get all the details smoothed out, but for now you can visit and join the Miracles and More community.

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